<p>Career Fairs and the companies sponsored at Berkeley block majors from applying if you are not a certain major that fits their criteria–already the discrimination is there. You couldn’t even apply to PG&E through the Career Center if you weren’t EECS–the Career Fair accounts screen you by your major profile. Remember, once you are in that major you don’t really want, you will be expected to do research in that major! And that research will be irrelevant to what you want to do… It will be almost impossible to do EECS research when you are not that major.</p>
<p>The best option for prospective Engineering students at Berkeley is to put Engineering Undeclared, allowing an easy access to EE or CS. If that is what you really want, don’t let them put you somewhere else! Just don’t go to Berkeley and go to a school that can let you study what you want. Take it from someone who has been to Berkeley and is aware of the atmosphere there. Even a professor from UC Merced whom I have discussed with states “They don’t care about education over there (Berkeley).” Maybe grad education, but definitely not undergrad. UCB has a “if you aren’t in the major you want, too bad” mentality that is unproductive for students.</p>